Can't Complain By Morgan Mandel

At one time authors had no choice but to write their manuscripts in longhand, hoping not to make mistakes, but often having to scratch out words.

Then came manual typewriters. I learned to type on a Royal Underwood my first year in high school.

Then came electric typewriters. Second year in high school I used a big, clunky green IBM typewriter,which was very noisy. Maybe some of you oldies like me remember these monsters.

After that I got to use a correcting typewriter at work, where I could backspace and fix mistakes. They were a blessing.

Desktop computers were the next improvement. With them I could erase letters, words, move paragraphs around, change formatting, do just about anything, even connect to the World Wide Web.

Laptop computers also were invented, which can work off of a power source or independently on batteries.

I'm using one right now, along with a network card, which usually works pretty well, but since I'm vacationing in the NorthWoods, the computer is struggling and sometimes losing the signal.

Not only that, the battery has decided not to work, so I'm forced to keep the computer connected to the power source unril next week when I get back to work from vacation and get my new battery. Thank goodness I can still work on my manuscripts in the meantime, when I have time between my other activities here in the NorthWoods.

So, things aren't working as well as I'm used, to, but I can't complain. That's what I keep telling myself anyway.

Morgan Mandel
http://www.morganmandel.com/
http://morganmandel.blogspot.com/



Right now I'm struggling with battery problems on my laptop computer